On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:04:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
FWIW, I appreciate a lot that non-breaking rule. I have some testing
machines which boot from PXE or USB on a file-system with some old
tools and libc, that are both 2.4 and 2.6 compatible. Everything works
like a charm, the only point of care was to have both module-init-tools
and modutils (obviously) but even that integrates smoothly.
I know quite a lot of people who never replace user-space but only
kernels on their systems, so this non-breaking rule is much welcome !
Willy
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